PRECAUTIONARY APPROACH


Meaning of PRECAUTIONARY APPROACH in English

1. Set of measures taken to implement the Precautionary principle.

2. A set of agreed cost-effective measures and actions, including future courses of action, which ensures prudent foresight, reduces or avoids risk to the resource, the environment, and the people, to the extent possible, taking explicitly into account existing uncertainties and the potential consequences of being wrong".

Garcia (1996)

Fishery English glossary.      Английский глоссарий рыболовства .